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Peter Mulraney

My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living

Synopsis

Words of wisdom from a modern-day mystic in a language you can understand.
Conscious living involves being aware of what’s going on in your life and, more importantly, what’s going on in your mind.
How you experience life depends on what you choose to believe.
If you never take the time to examine your beliefs, or to question your assumptions, you end up living unconsciously.
When you live unconsciously, you live your life according to somebody else’s beliefs. You end up trying to meet somebody else’s expectations and not your own.
The insights in this book flow from a sense of being aware that you can change the world, but not in the way most of us think about doing that.
Real change happens when you accept that there is only one thing that can be changed: how you choose to see things.

Author Biography

Peter Mulraney is a crime writing mystic from Adelaide, Australia.
He has worked as a teacher, an insurance agent, a banker and a public servant.
He is the author of the Inspector West crime series, the Living Alone series of self-help books for men, Sharing the Journey: Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic, The New Girlfriend and Everyday Project Management.

Author Insight

Everything is always changing

Book Excerpt

My Life is My Responsibility: Insights for Conscious Living

Nothing stays forever

Life is a flow of ever changing events, moment to moment; yet how often do you stand in its path trying to stop its movement?

People appear in your life for a period; then they leave. Why do you get upset?

Your ideas are popular one day and forgotten or ridiculed the next. Why are you offended?

Something unpleasant arrives for a visit, only to be transformed into a moment of unexpected joy. Why are you surprised?

How often have you found yourself expending energy holding onto people, beliefs and things? Or found yourself expending your energy resisting change?

Pay attention to the parade of the seasons. There is a message there. That’s nature’s way of reminding you that nothing stays forever.

Even those majestic trees that live for hundreds of years eventually fall to the forest floor and decay back into the soil that grew them.

Every mountain, edifice and monument on the planet is slowly turning to dust.

What makes you think today’s troubles will be here tomorrow?

It doesn’t matter what’s going on in your life; it will pass. Take a moment and recall an earlier time in your life – it’s not the same as today, is it?

Your part in the play of life is to notice and experience, and then let go. It’s not to hoard and hold on to everything and everyone that comes along.

You won’t be staying here forever either, so make the most of your visit and experience as much as you can, instead of lamenting over people and things that have served their purpose in your life and moved on.